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What is Japanese Architecture?: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture with a List of Sites and a Map

ISBN-13: 9784770019929

Contributor(s): H. Mack Horton (introduction by), Kazuo Nishi (author), Kazuo Hozumi (illustrated by)

Subject: Architecture

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Books

Publication Date: 31-12-1995

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£22.00

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About the book

This overview of the construction, design, carpentry and background of Japanese architecture presents information on building methods, urban planning, use of gardens and the relation between social change and architectural styles. Traditional Japanese architecture-whether Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, residences, castles, or teahouses-has become increasingly familiar around the world. Through the media of motion pictures, art books, T.V. documentaries and dramas such as Shogun, as well as through personal experience, more and more people have gained an acquaintance